Clear Street aims to provide sophisticated investors with access to every asset in every market through a unified, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform. The role focuses on building and hardening the Portfolio Management platform to handle high-volume data ingestion and processing, ensuring reliability and scalability for institutional clients.
Requirements
- At least seven (7) years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services in Java/SpringBoot using both multi-threaded and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Strong SQL skills, query plan analysis and optimization skills/tactics.
- Build JSON parsing/validation/transform pipelines (JSON Schema), including custom adapters/codecs. (preference of GSON over Jackson)
- Fundamental understanding of OLAP/OLTP workflows, and row oriented / column oriented database design choices.
- Model and operate Redis beyond KV: streams, pub/sub, hashes, sorted sets, Lua, eviction & persistence tradeoffs.
- Production debugging instincts: can trace failures across the layers of a system, understand /proc, syscalls, and debug latency related issues.
- Familiar with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux. Should have a basic understanding of what a system call is, what /proc is, what 'strace' does.
Responsibilities
- Own and harden the ingestion, validation, and persistence of high-volume data products across the Portfolio Management platform.
- Turn ambiguous, cross-team pain into deterministic, observable systems.
- Develop a wide range of services, from user authentication and authorization to client data delivery.
- Solve complex problems that challenge system design skills and implement clean and efficient code.
- Simplify complexity through feature and service design.
- Mentor teammates, evolve technical standards and best practices.
- Promote a culture of system design.
Other
- Requires employees to be in the office 4 days per week.
- Readiness to learn this stack is required.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.
- Collaboration in a meritocratic philosophy.
- Equal opportunity employer.
